110+ Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes On Lettitia, Romantic And Sensual

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was an English poet and novelist. She was a popular writer in the early 19th century and was known for her romantic poetry and gothic fiction. Her most famous works include The Improvisatrice, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, and The Zenana. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon on lettitia, leadership, love.

Top 10 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

1. Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
2. I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
3. Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
4. Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
5. The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
6. In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
7. Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?
8. there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
9. Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
10. One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Short Quotes

• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
• I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
• All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
• We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
• Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
• My heart is its own grave!
• Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
• All beginnings are very troublesome things.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Love

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Childhood, whose very happiness is love. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Save

Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Life

A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break! — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Past

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The past is perpetual youth to the heart. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quotes And Sayings

I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along, And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, And slumber sinks down on the wandering main, And its crystal arms are folded in rest, And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

anybody's applause is better than nobody's. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source. Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory! For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world, Like music！ — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are ourselves our happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning! — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The stars are so far, far away! — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is strange what society will endure from its idols. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Business before pleasure. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better] — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To be rude is as good as being clever. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A woman only can understand a woman. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Eyes that droop like summer flowers. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Affection exaggerates its own offenses. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life Lessons by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1. Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetry often focused on the power of hope, resilience, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Through her work, she taught readers to be brave and to take risks in order to reach their goals and dreams.
2. Landon also wrote about the importance of staying true to oneself, even when faced with difficult situations, and to never give up in the face of adversity.
3. Her work also served as a reminder to appreciate the beauty of life and to find joy in the small moments, despite the struggles and hardships that may come our way.